English Language

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/English_Language

GPTKB entity

Statements (109)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:language
gptkbp:branch	gptkb:West_Germanic
gptkbp:descendedFrom	gptkb:Early_Modern_English gptkb:Middle_English gptkb:Old_English
gptkbp:firstAttested	5th century
gptkbp:hasDialects	gptkb:British_English gptkb:American_English gptkb:Australian_English gptkb:Canadian_English gptkb:Caribbean_English gptkb:Indian_English gptkb:Irish_English gptkb:New_Zealand_English gptkb:Nigerian_English gptkb:South_African_English
gptkbp:hasLetter	~170,000 in current use
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	English Language
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:French gptkb:Greek gptkb:Latin gptkb:Norse gptkb:Celtic_languages
gptkbp:ISO_3166-2_code	en
gptkbp:ISO639-3	eng
gptkbp:languageFamily	gptkb:Indo-European
gptkbp:linguisticTypology	analytic
gptkbp:majorLiterature	gptkb:Canterbury_Tales gptkb:Moby-Dick gptkb:Pride_and_Prejudice gptkb:Shakespeare gptkb:To_Kill_a_Mockingbird gptkb:Ulysses gptkb:Beowulf gptkb:King_James_Bible gptkb:Paradise_Lost 1984
gptkbp:numberOfSpeakers	~1.5 billion ~380 million
gptkbp:officialLanguage	gptkb:ASEAN gptkb:African_Union gptkb:Caribbean_Community gptkb:Commonwealth_of_Nations gptkb:European_Union gptkb:NATO gptkb:Organization_of_American_States gptkb:Pacific_Islands_Forum gptkb:United_Nations
gptkbp:officialName	gptkb:Antigua_and_Barbuda gptkb:Australia gptkb:Bahamas gptkb:Barbados gptkb:Belize gptkb:Botswana gptkb:Cameroon gptkb:Canada gptkb:Dominica gptkb:Eswatini gptkb:Fiji gptkb:Gambia gptkb:Ghana gptkb:Grenada gptkb:Guyana gptkb:India gptkb:Ireland gptkb:Jamaica gptkb:Kenya gptkb:Kiribati gptkb:Lesotho gptkb:Liberia gptkb:Malta gptkb:Marshall_Islands gptkb:Mauritius gptkb:Micronesia gptkb:Namibia gptkb:New_Zealand gptkb:Nigeria gptkb:Pakistan gptkb:Palau gptkb:Papua_New_Guinea gptkb:Philippines gptkb:Rwanda gptkb:Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis gptkb:Saint_Lucia gptkb:Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines gptkb:Samoa gptkb:Seychelles gptkb:Sierra_Leone gptkb:Singapore gptkb:Solomon_Islands gptkb:South_Africa gptkb:Tanzania gptkb:Tonga gptkb:Trinidad_and_Tobago gptkb:Tuvalu gptkb:Uganda gptkb:United_Kingdom gptkb:United_States gptkb:Vanuatu gptkb:Zambia gptkb:Zimbabwe
gptkbp:regulates	none
gptkbp:spokenIn	worldwide
gptkbp:subfamily	gptkb:Germanic
gptkbp:SVOOrder	subject-verb-object
gptkbp:usedAsLinguaFranca	global
gptkbp:writingSystem	gptkb:Latin_alphabet
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Linguistics_and_English_Language
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5